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Though Banana Peel looks slipshod at times, it is mostly a bravura display of brightly stylish footwork. Befuddled, blackjacked, or held head down in a pool, Belmondo spins athletically through a series of double and triple crosses, showing more bounce per trounce than any leading man of his class. On the final bounce, it is inevitably Moreau who catches him. The minx with a perpetual moue, she sings, dances, suddenly flashes her searchlight smile over an unpromising patch of script-and the lost art of ultrasophisticated comedy springs to life on the instant. She seems more assured than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sure-Footed Fleecing | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...century, the man dropped from Ike's staff had worked only briefly for him. Unlike Walter Jenkins, he never served in the White House, thus had no access to the kind of secret documents that Jenkins handled almost routinely. Unlike Walter Jenkins, who was given a slipshod security screening by the Secret Service after Lyndon became Vice President in 1961 and no screening at all after he became President, Ike's aide underwent a stringent screening and thus was filtered out before he ever served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Johnson & the Jenkins Case | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...Burrows gives it a hand. He has a chart in his pocket that tells him the exact hour and minute that any given number or scene begins. Deciding to check on, say, the / Believe in You sequence, he pops into the theater at 10:39, and if anything is slipshod. Burrows will be crashing around backstage making a disturbance at 11:15, perhaps calling for a morning rehearsal. Similar sneak visits are frequently made by Choreographer Bob Fosse, Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin. Says Pressagent Merle Debuskey: "It's like Big Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: How to Go On Succeeding | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...Globe's piece of careless reporting is an example of Boston's slipshod journalism. Such haphazard coverage of this event makes one wonder what distortions appear in the Boston press's presentation of the larger issues which occasioned this student protest. Adam Hochschild '63 Vice-Chairman, Tocain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT DEMONSTRATION | 10/31/1962 | See Source »

...machines are designed to thwart slipshod penmen and student impersonators, according to Foster M. Palmer, associate librarian for research and circulation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Machines Operating | 10/10/1962 | See Source »

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